Instrumentalisation of International Migration to the EU: A Critique of Securitised Approaches

The use of migration for political purposes has raised concerns within the European Union. This blog post critically analyses the main EU policy and legal responses and proposals on the instrumentalisation of migration, emphasising the need for an approach centred more on individuals and less on the security of the EU. For these purposes, it examines in particular Belarus’ use of migrants for political purposes, as well as the subsequent European Commission’s proposal of a Regulation on situations of instrumentalisation.